Understanding Charles Seeger, pioneer in American musicology
By: edited by Bell Yung and Helen Rees ; foreword by Anthony Seeger
Contributors: Yung, Bell; Rees, Helen, 1964-
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Seeger, Charles, -- 1886-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "A giant in the development of American musicology, Charles Seeger was a scholar-musician active in practically all areas of musical endeavor: performance, composition, theory, criticism, pedagogy, and musicology. This wide-ranging collection provides a historical context for Seeger's ideas by investigating his writings on music, musical research, and the responsibility of the musician and musicologist to society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The dynamics of dissonance in Seeger's treatise and Crawford's quartet / Taylor A. Greer; title: The American composer in the 1930s : the social thought of Seeger and Chávez / Leonora Saavedra; title: Form, content, and value : Seeger and criticism to 1940 / Robert R. Grimes; title: "Temporary bypaths"? : Seeger and folk music research / Helen Rees; title: Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and "The music of American folk songs" / Judith Tick; title: Seeger's unitary field theory reconsidered / Lawrence M. Zbikowski; title: Anthropology and musicology : Seeger's writings from 1933 to 1953 / Nimrod Baranovitch; title: From modern physics to modern musicology : Seeger and beyond / Bell Yung